| 100% | HELEN | 5 | "What's the Matter with ___?," 1971 movie starring Debbie Reynolds as Adelle |
| 51% | MOLLY | 5 | "The Unsinkable ___ Brown," 1964 comedy movie starring Debbie Reynolds as the protagonist |
| 47% | AROUND | 6 | "The Second Time ___," 1961 comedy movie starring Debbie Reynolds as Lucretia Rogers |
| 47% | CHARLIE | 7 | "Goodbye ___," 1964 comedy movie starring Debbie Reynolds as Virginia Mason |
| 45% | BACHELOR | 8 | "Tammy and the ___," 1957 romantic comedy movie starring Debbie Reynolds as Tambrey Tyree |
| 40% | OMEGAMAN | 8 | 1971 movie starring 17- and 18-Across, with "The" |
| 38% | MASK | 4 | 1985 movie starring 15-Across as the mother of a teen with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia |
| 34% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 34% | STREEP | 6 | Movie star with the most Oscar nominations (15) |
| 34% | ATOMS | 5 | What's the matter? |
| 34% | ATOM | 4 | What's the matter? |
| 34% | MOLECULES | 9 | What's the matter? |
| 34% | PESTO | 5 | Sauce with the same consonants as what it's used on |
| 34% | ATOM | 4 | What's the matter, fundamentally? |
| 33% | TREETOPS | 8 | Places with bird's-eye views, and what the starred answers have |
| 33% | FALSE | 5 | With 68-Across, sprinter's infraction, or what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 33% | USEAN | 5 | With 60-Across, disguise one's identity ... and what the answers to starred clues subtly do? |
| 32% | GLEAM | 5 | Sparkle with the radiance of a movie star's teeth |
| 32% | OLSON | 5 | Kaitlin ___, the actress who stars as Deandra Reynolds on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" |
| 32% | ONAGAINOFFAGAIN | 15 | Intermittent, as a romance, or what's in the starred answers |
| 32% | KARATEKID | 9 | The __, 80s movie with Pat Morita as master Miyagi |
| 32% | STRINGSATTACHED | 15 | What the answers to the starred clues come with |
| 32% | NEMESIS | 7 | Star Trek: __, film with Tom Hardy as the villain |
| 32% | SPREADEM | 8 | Cop's order before frisking, and what to do with the starts of the starred answers |
| 32% | ADAPTATION | 10 | *2002 movie in which a Susan Orlean work is described as “that sprawling New Yorker shit” . . . or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 32% | SINNERS | 7 | 2025 movie starring Michael B. Jordan as the twins Smoke and Stack |
| 31% | REYNOLDS | 8 | Debbie, star of the 1952 movie Singin' in the Rain |
| 31% | ANAGRAMSOFNATIONNAMES | 21 | What the answers to the starred clues all start with |
| 31% | PAIN | 4 | What lines with stars at the end indicate in comics |
| 31% | BULLOCK | 7 | Sandra, starred with Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal |